Hello, I am on NS v7.4 and currently have a working pfsense box. When I quickly look at NS’s QoS, I thought it is not as “strong” as pfsense. I do not know enough to compare each function side by side but just a feeling when I skim the doc. Can someone tell me if NS QoS is better/worse/same as pfsense?

I have completed my tests over the weekend.
It has been an amusing full immersion experience.
The good news is that I achieved all targets.
The bad news is that we need RHEL 7.5, so the release is delayed for at least a couple of months, probably a bit more.

On the other hand, I’m using an improved QoS configuration in production and it seems to work better than the standard one.
I plan to ask for merging of this improved version
Would you like to test it using 2 custom templates?

If I clear out outbound bandwidth (blank) as well, I get an error[1]. The gateway also fails to forward packets.

If I reset the outbound bandwidth, the gateway resumes forwarding packets.

Stress Test

I ran a stress test where I downloaded an ISO at full speed. In parallel, I made a VoIP call. I didn’t run a full-on ping test but I captured some ping data[2] - subsequent post. The ping is to my ISP’s gateway.

The results of the test were promising but not perfect.

The phone conversation was noticeably affected by the download. When I paused the download, all was well. Basically I could hear the other party but there were times when the call was a bit choppy.